@BenRamanauskas Why should it apply to the elderly and nobody else full stop.
Weird that people are now advocating the accrual of value to the elderly from not just financial wealth but the touches of modern life
@spannermurphy@BenRamanauskas I used to live in eastern Ukraine. The answers to your questions are:
1. There was no coup.
2. There was never a ban on Russian. Russian is still the primary language of everyone east of the Dnipro river.
3. Russian proxies.
@AntBreach They say in the article they won’t be getting tax raising powers, only spending powers. Strikes me as introducing a form of moral hazard for the ones that spend badly.
@thomasforth It’s not a great indicator of how he views the drivers of future prosperity though, is it?
Or that he grips the fact that we’re in the midst of a new industrial revolution, for that matter.
@DespoticInroad Your faith in burnham is intriguing, given his record of simply saying what people want to hear.
This guy isn’t being deported for as long as we abide by the ECHR. Burnham will not be leading the UK out of the ECHR = burnham just saying what people want to hear.